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I guess calling them reverse centaurs visualizes the change that is happening in the relationship between human and machine. We used to be the head but we're the butt now. It makes you reconstruct the image in your head.
In truth there already was a downward trend before LLM's exploded where tools were continuously used against people. "Enshitification" most people call it but it's really just free range capitalism. Generations of economy majors have been doing exactly what they were taught. Increase short term shareholder value at any cost. It's unsustainable and LLM's are just another accelerant.
Yes, but the minotaur is frequently just a person with the head of a bull, instead having to invert a centaur, which is already not a familiar image. In talks, Doctorow defaults to "Bojack Horseman", an acknowledgment that reverse centaur is perhaps too much imaginative labor for his audience.
Agree on the MBAs--capitalism eating itself.